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SUBMITTER: Nusinow DA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3155984 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nusinow Dmitri A DA Helfer Anne A Hamilton Elizabeth E EE King Jasmine J JJ Imaizumi Takato T Schultz Thomas F TF Farré Eva M EM Kay Steve A SA
Nature 20110713 7356
The circadian clock is required for adaptive responses to daily and seasonal changes in environmental conditions. Light and the circadian clock interact to consolidate the phase of hypocotyl cell elongation to peak at dawn under diurnal cycles in Arabidopsis thaliana. Here we identify a protein complex (called the evening complex)--composed of the proteins encoded by EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3), ELF4 and the transcription-factor-encoding gene LUX ARRHYTHMO (LUX; also known as PHYTOCLOCK 1)--that di ...[more]